Lots of stuff.....

Oh man, I'm so bad at keeping up on here. I always have amazing thoughts and posts but then get to tired to actually write and or type. ;-)

Umm, I have an almost 2 year old and am seriously wondering how this can be!! I mean don't get me wrong, I'm kind of thankful because life is a lot easier in SO many ways but it's just the fact that she's gonna be 2! Crazy!

Life is crazy but crazy good, I've been home for a week after another fabulous Honduras surgical mission trip. I think the trips bless me and probably the whole brigade more than the Hondurans. It's always so refreshing to have time to just be and not have my phone and be constantly checking it or looking at social media. And I'm not gonna lie, not having my phone during the election was a Godsend. God really spoke to me and reminded me that he is control, despite everything going on(whether the election, or the drama within my family) and that I need to be reliant on him. I also need to get my focus back to him and spend time in his precious Word daily. Which lets be honest is not always easy, some days for me it's before I go to bed. And I'm looking forward to getting back to church since the busy season is done. And our church is getting a real building, woot woot!!
So another fun thing, Jared and I are going to Hawaii in January and we bought our tickets tonight! It's going to be amazing, I've always wanted to go and am looking forward to getting away.

I've now been at Bronson for almost a year and I can finally say that I'm glad I made the switch. It's been rough at times but a good thing too and the drive is soooooooo much nicer.

And can you believe it's thanksgiving next week?!  How does that happen?


Today I'm thankful for my job even though I'm working on Saturday night :)

How to know that you're officially a hippie

So I just went downstairs while at work to get a snack and not just any snack, kale chips. And they don't have the kind I want. Ugh!! Coconut lime is not the kind I want. 

So it's official, I love raw juice, kombucha, kale chips, and don't vaccinate my child. Yep. Oh and I also had a home birth and was just looking at home funerals and green burials. And I love essential oils. 

That is all :-) 

Late night thoughts

First I should be going to bed but as I was driving home, I was just feeling so very thankful! 

Like seriously blessed, I have so much! I was thinking back to how I am very glad that I got to go to a Christian school, where we learned about the Bible, and were required to learn memory verses and I was thinking on September 11th of this year, how awesome it was to be at a Christian school when those tragic events occurred. We prayed and sang and were thankful to be there. I had amazing teachers who genuinely cared and LOVED their jobs!! One teacher in particular always had a prayer request and PTL(praise the Lord) column on her blackboard and we would start class by saying our requests and praises. And it didn't matter how long it took, she made that a priority. How awesome is that?! *side note I'm crying as I write that, because I'm just so impressed and know that Mrs. Weaver loved praying for us and wanted to know how we were doing and loved seeing God work. 

I was thinking how amazing it was to have an incredible radio station like way fm, and how much music can impact ones life. It was so cool to be able to go to so many Christian concerts. I'm thinking of that because it's the Allegan county fair this week and there were so many great concerts there! Gosh I was so blessed! Also such a blessing to have a Mom who knew how important it was for us to listen to good music and always encouraged us and went with us to so many concerts. 

And right now as I lay in our spare room with my crazy cat who I didn't think was going to live a couple weeks ago(that's a whole other blog post) I am thankful for this beautiful home that we get to call our own! I love this house and the memories that we have made here already. I am so thankful for the sweet and stubborn almost 9 month old sleeping next door and for my husband sleeping across the hall. 

Well that's all, I'm tired and need to go to bed since 7am comes way to fast! 

I'll leave you with a cute picture of Noel :-)

 

Night time ramblings

I'm just laying in bed, and I should be going to sleep but decided to blog just now. 

I just rolled some lavender EO on the bottoms of my feet so I'll be tired here soon. 

I'm thinking that it's crazy that Noel is over 8 months old now! Guess what? She finally crawled today!!!! Yay!! :-) 

The farm season has begun and I may or may not be LOVING it! Last weekend my mom, Noel and I did some shopping which was fun and even went to Starbucks! 

The weather tonight feels like fall! Yes!! 

And all of a sudden I'm real tired! 

Goodnight blog! 

All of us girls at auburn last weekend 

Hello blog!

Well hello there!

I'm clearly not cut out to have a blog or at least not one that's very noteworthy as I'm quite a fail at keeping up with it. Sigh!

Oh well, I'll do a quick update! Ummmm seriously Noel is almost 8 months old?! How in the world? She's so darn cute and may or may not be quite stubborn already. Oh man! She has two little teeth on the bottom which popped through about a month ago! 

I mean seriously how cute is she?!

I haven't been able to get a good picture of the little teeth yet but they're cute 😉 I'm not anywhere near considering having another baby, I seriously get asked that question WAY to often!! Maybe adoption someday at an appropriate age. Like potty trained, able to communicate etc.

Currently Noel is napping and I should be doing any number of things around the house but so far I've taken a nap on the couch, checked Facebook, and am now updating my probably one or two readers on my life. I should go pay some bills tho.

Oh and my mom and I have been running now for about 3 weeks and I'm feeling so much better. We've been doing 3 miles 3-4 times a week! Woot woot!

 But I'll leave you with some more adorable photos of Noel. :-)

Happy Fathers Day!!

A very Happy Fathers Day to Jared!

I know he won't read this, but I'll still post a few pictures and say that I'm very thankful for him and the dad that he is to Noel so far :-) especially since he's really liking her now! lol

Terrible blogger

Yep that would be me! Ugh, I just always run out of time! But seriously, Noel is getting soooo much more fun and I'm just loving it! 

Can she be any cuter?! Eeeeee!!!! :-) She got her first ponytail yesterday and even laughed lots yesterday! Oh my goodness! 

This child could still really use a lesson in just closing her eyes for a nap! Ugh!! Frustrating! Like today she woke up at 7:45am and proceeded to stay awake for Grandma until 12:30pm. Wtf!? I felt so bad! Oh naughty girlsy!

Ok I gotta leave work! I'm still going to write Noel's birth story so be on the lookout for that!